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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2005-10-06 09:28 pm
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One more day-- one more day to the long weekend-- one more night of early drugged bedtime to get me up at umphy o'clock and then, four days straight of sleeping in and three days of lounging on a couch dealing the death-blow to this virus.

And I think on my way home, 'Long weekend, let's pick up some Chinese DVDs to watch, no, do it tomorrow' and return home to find that [livejournal.com profile] xsmoonshine has providentially saved me the trouble (and I'd totally forgotten she was going to do so) with a musical version of Dream of Red Chambers (well, she says they sing) and wuxia and hey A Chinese Ghost Story seen and forgotten umm 15 years ago and more. So thank you qwerty: your timing is brilliant. I shall think of you *often* this weekend.
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[identity profile] petronia.livejournal.com 2005-10-06 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I gather it's going around. I lugged my affliction back from Europe but everyone at work is coughing as well. =_=

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's going around in two versions. The other is a violent stomach flu I am grateful to have been spared.

[identity profile] xsmoonshine.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
I did mean to give you a heads up, but kept forgetting. ^^ Ganbatte! Kill the virus dead!

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
I intend to. Mandarin kills viruses on contact. It's like ginseng that way.
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[personal profile] incandescens 2005-10-07 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Sympathy. (Die, virus, die!) Viruses must be shounen, they resist so viciously.

Is that _the_ A Chinese Ghost Story? With Leslie Cheung (iirc) and all? It's been ages since I thought about that. Wow. Now I'm getting all nostalgic.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2005-10-07 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
This is _the_ CGS. Seen first at an all-Chinese Int'l Toronto Film Festival I did once and fortunately need never do again. Should be interesting viewing now I know a little of the background rather than absolutely nothing. Leslie Cheung, huh? I thought him rather a drip from the little I saw of him elsewhere.

(Though [livejournal.com profile] paleaswater tells me the emperor in Hero is an actor famous otherwise for portraying willowy and languid scholars. So there we are. The willowy and languid occasionally acquire energy.)
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[personal profile] incandescens 2005-10-07 02:53 pm (UTC)(link)
In the movies that I recall seeing (which aren't exhaustive, I admit) he is often the pretty sweet hero rather than the proactive or vigorous type.
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